qdaemon - loss of jobs?

[Eric Hanson]

Hello everyone,

I am new to the UNIX world. I am having problems printing to a network
printer. It seems the print queue is stuck, or at least one job is
holding everything up. Nothing is spitting out of the printer.

There are appoximately 200 jobs in the queue. Running lpstat, the very
first job (#724) is "RUNNING" and seems stuck. Nothing is getting
printed. Also under that lpstat output, under the column % is "100".
The next 200 jobs have status of QUEUED or NEW (something to that
affect). They appear to be waiting for the first job. I would like to
delete that first job, but I was told that the jobs that are in there
are too important to be lost. So right now that is a no-go.

From what I have read I might be able to fix via restarting qdaemon. I
want to give that a shot to see if it might help. Does anyone think
this might work? Also, and somewhat important, are any jobs lost
during the restart? Any other advice would be greatly appreciated to
this UNIX newbie. Thanks a bunch.

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Eric Hanson
[email]ehanson@pobox.com[/email]

[Steve Nottingham]

[email]ehanson@pobox.com[/email] (Eric Hanson) wrote in message news:<40b64c1.0309091727.19672245@posting.google.c om>...

> Hello everyone,
>
> I am new to the UNIX world. I am having problems printing to a network
> printer. It seems the print queue is stuck, or at least one job is
> holding everything up. Nothing is spitting out of the printer.
>
> There are appoximately 200 jobs in the queue. Running lpstat, the very
> first job (#724) is "RUNNING" and seems stuck. Nothing is getting
> printed. Also under that lpstat output, under the column % is "100".
> The next 200 jobs have status of QUEUED or NEW (something to that
> affect). They appear to be waiting for the first job. I would like to
> delete that first job, but I was told that the jobs that are in there
> are too important to be lost. So right now that is a no-go.
>
> From what I have read I might be able to fix via restarting qdaemon. I
> want to give that a shot to see if it might help. Does anyone think
> this might work? Also, and somewhat important, are any jobs lost
> during the restart? Any other advice would be greatly appreciated to
> this UNIX newbie. Thanks a bunch.

You will not lose any jobs on the queue by stopping qdaemon, all the
jobs will still be in the spool directory (/var/spool/qdaemon). If
when you restart qdaemon, the jobs is still 'stuck' and you are sure
it is printed, you could use qcan to kill the job. You may want to
check root's mail to see if there are any messages from qdaemon or if
/var is full using df /var.

Steve